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    A Study Guide for Chinua Achebe's "Marriage is a Private Affair"
    A Study Guide for Chinua Achebe's "Marriage is a Private Affair"
    A Study Guide for Chinua Achebe's "Marriage is a Private Affair"
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    A Study Guide for Chinua Achebe's "Marriage is a Private Affair"

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    A Study Guide for Chinua Achebe's "Marriage is a Private Affair," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535828246
    A Study Guide for Chinua Achebe's "Marriage is a Private Affair"

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      A Study Guide for Chinua Achebe's "Marriage is a Private Affair" - Gale

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      Marriage Is a Private Affair

      Chinua Achebe

      1952

      Introduction

      Marriage Is a Private Affair is a short story by the renowned Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. It was first published in 1952 under the title The Old Order in Conflict with the New in the University Herald of University College, Ibadan, Nigeria, where Achebe was a student. As Beginning of the End, it was reprinted in Achebe's 1962 collection of short stories, The Sacrificial Egg and Other Short Stories. The title was changed yet again, this time to Marriage Is a Private Affair, when the story was reprinted in 1972 in Achebe's short story collection Girls at War, and Other Stories.

      Marriage Is a Private Affair is set in Lagos, the former capital of Nigeria, and in a rural village. It tells the story of Nnaemeka, a young man living in Lagos, whose choice of bride does not meet with his father's approval. When the son returns to his village, his father opposes the marriage because Nnaemeka's fiancée is not a member of the Igbo tribe, and it is not the custom for Igbos to marry outside their own ethnic group. (Achebe spells it Ibo, but the modern spelling is Igbo.) The story dramatizes the conflict been tradition and modernity in the Nigeria of the 1950s. Nnaemeka marries for love rather than in accordance with custom, triggering a generational conflict that is resolved only by the persistence and goodwill of the young couple. The story is one of Achebe's earliest published works. It is not a complex story in either structure or theme, but it does serve as an example of the kind of subject matter that Achebe would later develop in more depth in his novels.

      Author Biography

      One of Africa's most renowned writers, the novelist, essayist, and poet Achebe was born on November 16, 1930, at Ogidi, east of Onitsha, Eastern Region of Nigeria. His parents were Christian evangelists, and Achebe's early education was at the school of the Church Missionary Society. He was initially taught in the Igbo language and first started

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